{"id":140679,"date":"2022-06-16T11:03:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T16:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/astronomers-discovered-a-nearby-star-hosting-two-rocky-earth-like-planets"},"modified":"2022-06-16T11:03:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T16:03:16","slug":"astronomers-discovered-a-nearby-star-hosting-two-rocky-earth-like-planets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/astronomers-discovered-a-nearby-star-hosting-two-rocky-earth-like-planets","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers discovered a nearby star hosting two rocky Earth-like planets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-discovered-a-nearby-star-hosting-two-rocky-earth-like-planets.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though the planets are outside of <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/china-earth-exoplanet-search\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-id=\"embedded internal links\" data-type=\"link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/china-earth-exoplanet-search\">their star\u2019s habitable zone<\/a>, as they orbit too closely, \u201cthere might be more planets in the system,\u201d according to Avi Shporer, one of the scientists involved in the new study. \u201cThere are many multiplanet systems hosting five or six planets, especially around small stars like this one. Hopefully, we will find more, and one might be in the habitable zone. That\u2019s optimistic thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Either way, the multiplanet system will likely be a focal point for future studies, shedding new insight into planetary formation and the evolution of alien worlds, helping the astronomical community better understand how our own planet came into existence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though the planets are outside of their star\u2019s habitable zone, as they orbit too closely, \u201cthere might be more planets in the system,\u201d according to Avi Shporer, one of the scientists involved in the new study. \u201cThere are many multiplanet systems hosting five or six planets, especially around small stars like this one. Hopefully, we [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}